GeForce GTX 1080 vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (180W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1080
+82%
8873
Radeon R9 290
4849
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1080
+104%
7565
Radeon R9 290
3694
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Nov 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1607 MHz
Base Clock
-
1733 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1251 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.3GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2560
160
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
110.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
138.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.873 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
275W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP104-400-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3